Dave Meeks

Dave Meeks has extensive work experience in the field of software engineering and architecture. Dave has held various roles in different companies throughout their career.

Starting from their most recent position, they worked as a Principal Data Architect at agilon health from 2023. Prior to that, they served as the Principal Software Architect and Vice President of Architecture at athenahealth from 2017 to 2023. In this role, they led a team of over 500 engineers and was responsible for various core capabilities, including security, software delivery, infrastructure, cloud services, integration services, and data services. Dave also created a multi-petabyte Data Lake using Spark and Python in the Amazon AWS environment.

Before their time at athenahealth, Meeks worked as a MicroServices Cloud Architect at VidScale from July 2017 to September 2017. In this role, they were tasked with designing and providing requirements for a new edge computing initiative.

Prior to that, for a significant portion of their career, Meeks worked at IBM in multiple roles. Dave served as the Chief Architect for Installation, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing from February 2012 to July 2017. Dave'sresponsibilities included product installation, patch management, virtualization, and the delivery of the InfoSphere product line within a Cloud Computing environment. Dave also played a key role in building a PaaS-based delivery platform.

Meeks also worked as the Chief Architect for Data Quality Solutions and Chief Architect for Information Analyzer at IBM. In these roles, they were responsible for technical architecture definitions, design, and development of data quality solutions and the Information Analyzer product.

Before joining IBM, Meeks worked at Ascential Software as a Principal Software Engineer, where they provided technical design, development, and architectural guidance for the UniVerse and DataStage product lines. Dave was also part of the CTO Technology Office, working on developing new product prototypes.

Earlier in their career, Meeks worked at Ardent Software as a Principal Software Engineer, where they provided technical design and development for the UniVerse database product. Dave also led a development team and provided overall technical design and leadership for the product.

Meeks began their career as a Senior Software Engineer at VMark Software, where they worked on the design and development of the UniVerse database product. Dave was responsible for various areas, including user-interface design, system administration, compiler development, locking subsystems, and security interfaces.

Lastly, Meeks worked as a Software Engineer at Prime Computer, where they developed Unix Operating System code and specialized in parallel operating systems designs.

Overall, Dave Meeks has extensive experience in software engineering and architecture roles, with a focus on data architecture, platform architecture, cloud computing, and data quality solutions.

Dave Meeks obtained their Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering (BSCEE) from Purdue University, where they focused on Operating System Design and Parallel Operating System Design. In addition, they have obtained certifications in CSSLP Cert Prep: 1 Secure Software Concepts, Developing Secure Software, and Learning the OWASP Top 10 from LinkedIn. The specific months of when they obtained these certifications are not provided.